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[F1LH]

Hi everyone, I'd like to share with you a new youtube channel called "F1 Livery Histories" which catalogues the different paint jobs, colour schemes & sponsors adopted by different Formula One teams over the years.

The first video in the series is on the very team that started it all, Colin Chapman's original Team Lotus.



Link: F1 Livery Histories: LOTUS

Hope you enjoy :-)

[F1LH]

The second instalment in the series. This time on the bright & colourful Benetton team.

 

 

Link: F1 Livery Histories: BENETTON

[F1LH]

Episode three covers one of my favourite F1 teams, Tyrrell Racing.

 

 

Link:F1 Livery Histories: TYRRELL

 

 

It's been fun making these videos & plenty more are on the way. Hope to hear from some of you soon :-)

Edited by F1LH, 12 February 2018 - 07:29.

[Team Result]

Hi everyone, I'd like to share with you a new youtube channel called "F1 Livery Histories" which catalogues the different paint jobs, colour schemes & sponsors adopted by different Formula One teams over the years.

The first video in the series is on the very team that started it all, Colin Chapman's original Team Lotus.



Link: F1 Livery Histories: LOTUS

Hope you enjoy :-)

Yes, very enjoyable! A couple of small corrections to this video. Surely, the Gold Leaf livery first appeared at Rd1 (South Africa) of the 1968 season (and all 1968 Tasman rounds), well before Rd2 at Jarama in April (plenty of Jim Clark pix in GLTL cars to verify this). Also, Champion make spark plugs, not brake pads.

[Vicuna]

Gold Leaf most certainly DID NOT appear at Round 1 of the 1968 Championship at Kyalami - and nor at "...all 1968 Tasman rounds"

[F1LH]

Yes, very enjoyable! A couple of small corrections to this video. Surely, the Gold Leaf livery first appeared at Rd1 (South Africa) of the 1968 season (and all 1968 Tasman rounds), well before Rd2 at Jarama in April (plenty of Jim Clark pix in GLTL cars to verify this). Also, Champion make spark plugs, not brake pads.

 

Thanks mate, glad to hear you found it enjoyable. You are indeed right, there are indeed a few pictures out there of Jimmy Clark in the 49 with Gold Leaf livery, however, they still raced in the green & gold for R1 at Kyalami.

 

 

And you are totally right about Champion!

[Team Result]

Gold Leaf most certainly DID NOT appear at Round 1 of the 1968 Championship at Kyalami - and nor at "...all 1968 Tasman rounds"

Apologies, my error in not cross-checking about Kyalami, just relying on a miss-attributed photo. Can I at least say, 'all 1968 Australian Tasman rounds'? 

[Tim Murray]

The Gold Leaf livery first appeared in an F1 race at the Race of Champions at Brands Hatch in March 1968.

Can I at least say, 'all 1968 Australian Tasman rounds'?

... and two of the four NZ rounds.

[john winfield]

I read that the much-missed Barry Foley designed the 1972 JPS livery. Does anyone know if he was involved in later JPS designs? Presumably he had nothing to do with the 1968-1971 Gold Leaf designs.

 

 

..grunt, grunt....

[E1pix]

Welcome, F1LH, and very good efforts! All I've watched so far is the Lotus video, and loved it.

 

I've done many liveries myself, so this is of particular importance to me.

 

As a longtime sign man then, I was delighted at Long Beach in 1983 to see that the Mansell and de Angelis (a first cousin of a client-friend then) cars were still hand-painted as I was doing — and loved it. I had an invite to be considered for the Toleman team for '84, but never followed up for a burgeoning business and I suppose, a lack of vision at my age of 22.

[F1LH]

I read that the much-missed Barry Foley designed the 1972 JPS livery. Does anyone know if he was involved in later JPS designs? Presumably he had nothing to do with the 1968-1971 Gold Leaf designs.

 

 

..grunt, grunt....

 

 

Considering they're all mostly based off the same idea, you could say that Barry Foley had a lot to do with pretty much all of the JPS liveries  

Edited by F1LH, 13 February 2018 - 03:30.

[F1LH]

Welcome, F1LH, and very good efforts! All I've watched so far is the Lotus video, and loved it.

 

I've done many liveries myself, so this is of particular importance to me.

 

As a longtime sign man then, I was delighted at Long Beach in 1983 to see that the Mansell and de Angelis (a first cousin of a client-friend then) cars were still hand-painted as I was doing — and loved it. I had an invite to be considered for the Toleman team for '84, but never followed up for a burgeoning business and I suppose, a lack of vision at my age of 22.

 

 

Thank you very much, it's been fun researching & putting these videos together, I'm really glad people are getting enjoyment out of them.

 

That's funny you say that, because I am also a signwriter by trade! Sounds like you were a very sensible 22 year old, actually, what with prioritising your burgeoning business over a contractor's role with Toleman! Still, it's amazing to think you could have had a hand in painting that big Candy logo.

 

What kind of liveries have you done personally?

Edited by F1LH, 13 February 2018 - 03:31.

[E1pix]

I realized after my post I failed in my customary "Welcome" but as you're the only other sign guy I've ever seen here I now upgrade you to "WELCOME!!!"

Edit: Took you 7 posts to find one here, and me nearly 19,000... So You Win. :-)

Too cool, and there is a signwriter's thread hereabouts and it'd be great to post there. I hope to break out the flats and quills soon, preferably on a historic race car, I lettered over 500 from 1976-1991 or so but none since. I did, though do my first pinstriping on five Pebble Beach concours cars last June, my first in 13 years.

My problem is we live on the road and have scanned next to nothing of that era of my career! So far as viewable online, I think there's shots of the 1993 Brix Racing Spice in IMSA, the 1994 Oldsmobile Cutlass of Irv Hoerr and Darin Brassfield, the following WSC Spice of Dale and Schader, and the Motorola Indy Car of Mark Blundell continued the '94-95 WSC car. I did a ton more but those are the ones I've seen online and I'm not yet posting photos here that'd make it easy.

One note... not so regretful about never writing "Candy," more of a Senna thing...

Anyway, sorry to stray but very cool to hear you're a Brush Dude... and still!!!

Only watched the Lotus video so far, watching the others momentarily. But regardless the Lotus one is exceptional in an era of often less, and I commend the effort and especially the result!

Edited by E1pix, 13 February 2018 - 04:01.

[F1LH]

Mate, that's amazing. It's a shame you were so busy on the road in those days & don't have all that many pictures. But you are certainly a very accomplished brush man that's for sure.

 

I'm personally not a brush dude, I happen to work with vinyl, doing car-wraps and such. Very rarely do I make decals for racing vehicles, although I have done a couple of dirt racers in my time.

[E1pix]

Thanks Bud, and sorry, I meant we live on the road now and few of my brush work slides ever got scanned. All in storage now.

 

I designed the liveries, chose the paint colors, and spec'ed the vinyl on the Brix cars (and did the team wear, posters, autograph cards, etc.), post-hand-painted days. But fun to make that transition to vinyl, if only rarely.

 

A few got scanned but none are F1 cars. Dang.

 

Thanks.